Wednesday, October 22, 2014

looking up

Writing a respectable blog post has been impossible
lately. I tried several times, but
failed miserably after committing a single thought to a sentence or two. Life in the deep rut of routine is shitty
feedstock for blog post ideas. Life is
easiest in the deep rut of routine, but alas, it’s not very interesting.

Well, I’m writing, so something exciting has happened
recently. In fact, several exciting
things have happened. Until recently, I
used to think I was one of most unlucky people who walked the planet. Truly, I could not even win a coin toss. This was demonstrated to me time and again
throughout my life. It was not so much a
matter of bad luck, just no good luck.

About a month ago, I attended a conference for my teaching
job. At the end of the day, they had a
drawing for a boatload of door prizes. By
the time they were ready to give away prizes, most people had left. There were maybe 80-90 people left. Anyway, they began drawing names and handing
out gift bags. Name after name was
called. People all around me were
winning cool stuff and not so great stuff – tee shirts, books, umbrellas, mugs,
software, satchels, etc. After a while,
it looked like everyone was going to walk out with something except me. In fact, all the gift bags were gone and I
was only one of a handful of people who had won nothing. Then they brought out a small bag and
announced they would draw for the grand prize.
I won!!! It was a Kindle Fire
HD. Awesome!!!

This week has almost generated a whole paradigm shift in my
feeble brain. In fact, I’ve had so much
good luck that I’m starting to worry.
Surely all this good luck is going to cause something terrible to
happen. No one person is going to have
this many good things happen without paying some kind of penalty!

First, I won a $100 gift card (one of three) for completing
a survey months ago. Then, I was
notified by ProQuest that they owe me royalties because my dissertation has
sold enough copies. How much? I still don’t know, but they don’t cut checks
for less than $25. I have a tax form to fill out and return L Next, I learned I was
nominated for executive vice-chair for a professional organization I belong
to. Apparently I’m running unopposed, so
I’ve pretty much won the election unless “bad luck” kicks in to interfere. Last night, I learned I was nominated to be
included in another honorary (sort of…it seems to be) professional organization. They are reviewing my credentials and will
let me know if I’m inducted.

All of these things happened in the first three days this
week. I’m just so incredibly lucky
lately…maybe I should buy a lottery ticket, or get me to the race track. Maybe Lady Luck is my new girlfriend.

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About Me

I am a lady who lives in the great state of Kentucky. I consider myself to be middle-aged...no longer young, but definitely not old. I’m married to Someone (he who shall not be named). I have three lovely daughters (Sarah, Erin, and Emily), and a lovely step-daughter, Katie. We have a dog (Gracie) and a cat (Molly). After 37 years working as a computer professional, I transitioned to higher education. I’m an adjunct professor just now, and loving my work.